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TUPHA091 A Reliable White Rabbit Network for the FAIR General Timing Machine ion, network, timing, monitoring 627
 
  • C. Prados, J.N. Bai, A. Hahn
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • A. Suresh. Suresh
    Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Science, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  A new timing system based on White Rabbit (WR) is being developed for the upcoming FAIR facility at GSI in collaboration with CERN and other partners. The General Timing Machine (GTM) is responsible for the synchronization of nodes and distribution of timing events, which allows the real-time control of the accelerator equipment. WR is a time-deterministic, low latency Ethernet-based network for general data transfer and sub-ns time and frequency distribution. The FAIR WR network is considered operational only if it provides deterministic and resilient data delivery and reliable time distribution. In order to achieve this level of service, methods and techniques to increase the reliability of the GTM and WR network has been studied and evaluated. Besides, GSI has developed a network monitoring and logging system to measure the performance and detect failures of the WR network. Finally, we describe the continuous integration system at GSI and how it has improve the overall reliability of the GTM.  
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THBPA03 The Back-End Computer System for the Medipix Based PI-MEGA X-Ray Camera ion, Linux, network, MMI 1149
 
  • H.D. de Almeida, D. P. Magalhaes, M.A.L. Moraes, J.M. Polli
    LNLS, Campinas, Brazil
 
  The Brazilian Synchrotron, in partnership with BrPhotonics, is designing and developing pi-mega, a new X-Ray camera using Medipix chips, with the goal of building very large and fast cameras to supply Sirius' new demands. This work describes the design and testing of the back end computer system that will receive, process and store images. The back end system will use RDMA over Ethernet technology and must be able to process data at a rate ranging from 50 Gbps to 100 Gbps per pi-mega element. Multiple pi-mega elements may be combined to produce a large camera. Initial applications include tomographic reconstruction and coherent diffraction imaging techniques.  
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THMPL08 The SLAC Common-Platform Firmware for High-Performance Systems ion, interface, FPGA, network 1286
 
  • T. Straumann, R. Claus, J.M. D'Ewart, J.C. Frisch, G. Haller, R.T. Herbst, B. Hong, U. Legat, L. Ma, J.J. Olsen, B.A. Reese, R. Ruckman, L. Sapozhnikov, S.R. Smith, D. Van Winkle, J.A. Vásquez, M. Weaver, E. Williams, C. Xu, A. Young
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
LCLS-II's high beam rate of almost 1MHz and the requirement that several "high-performance" systems (such as MPS, BPM, LLRF, timing etc.) shall resolve individual bunches precludes the use of a traditional software based control system but requires many core services to be implemented in FPGA logic. SLAC has created a comprehensive open-source firmware framework which implements many commonly used blocks (e.g., timing, globally-synchronized fast data buffers, MPS, diagnostic data capture), libraries (Ethernet protocol stack, AXI interconnect, FIFOs, memory etc.) and interfaces (e.g., for timing, diagnostic data etc.) thus providing a versatile platform on top of which powerful high-performance systems can be built and rapidly integrated.
 
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THPHA067 EtherCAT based DAQ system at ESS ion, EPICS, real-time, Linux 1536
 
  • J. Etxeberria, J.H. Lee
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
 
  The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a multi-disciplinary research facility based on what will be the world's most powerful-pulsed neutron source. The Integrated Control System Division (ICS) is responsible of defining and providing control systems for the ESS facility. This control system will be based on the EPICS and it must be high performance, cost-efficient, safe, reliable and easily maintainable. At the same time there is a strong need for standardization. To fulfill these requirements ICS has chosen different hardware platforms, like MicroTCA, PLC, EtherCAT, etc. EtherCAT, a Ethernet-based real-time fieldbus will be analyzed, and different questions will be answered: -Why has EtherCAT been chosen? -In which cases is it deployed? -How is it integrated into EPICS? -What is the installation process? Along with data acquisition purposes, the ESS Motion Control and Automation Group decided to use EtherCAT hardware to develop an Open Source EtherCAT Master Motion Controller, for the control of all the actuators of the accelerator within the ESS project. Hence, an overview of the open Source Motion Controller and its integration in EPICS will be also presented.  
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THPHA069 Control System for Atlas Tilecal HVremote Boards ion, controls, interface, electron 1543
 
  • F. Martins, A. Gomes, L. Gurriana, A. Maio, L. Seabra
    LIP, Lisboa, Portugal
  • G.G. Evans, A. Gomes, A. Maio, C. Rato, J.M. Sabino, J.A. Soares Augusto
    FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal
  • G.G. Evans
    BioISI, Lisboa, Portugal
  • J.A. Soares Augusto
    Inesc-ID, Lisboa, Portugal
 
  Funding: Funding from FCT (Portuguese government funding agency of the MCTES); project "Colaboracão na Experiência ATLAS", CERN/FISNUC/0005/2015
One of the proposed solutions for upgrading the high voltage (HV) system of Tilecal, the ATLAS hadron calorimeter, consists in removing the HV regulation boards from the detector and deploying them in a low-radiation room where there is permanent access for maintenance. This option requires many ~100m long HV cables but removes the requirement of radiation hard boards. That solution simplifies the control system of the HV regulation cards (called HVRemote). It consists of a Detector Control System (DCS) node linked to 256 HVRemote boards through a tree of Ethernet connections. Each HVRemote includes a smart Ethernet transceiver for converting data and commands from the DCS into serial peripheral interface (SPI) signals routed to SPI-capable devices in the HVRemote. The DCS connection to the transceiver and the control of some SPI-capable devices via Ethernet has been tested successfully. It was fabricated a test board (HVRemote-ctrl) with the interfacing sub-system of the HVRemote. It is being tested through SPI-interfaces and several devices were already validated. A next version adds a few more ADC/DAC devices for checking their suitability for the final design.
 
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THPHA147 Conceptual Design of Vacuum Control System for ILSF controls, vacuum, ion, PLC 1732
 
  • A. Khalilzadeh, M. Akbari, M. Jafarzadeh, J. Rahighi
    ILSF, Tehran, Iran
 
  Funding: ILSF
The Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF) is a new 3 GeV third generation synchrotron light source facility with circumference of 528 m, which is in the design stage. In this paper conceptual design of vacuum control system is presented. The control system architecture, Software toolkit and controller in device layer are discussed in this paper.
 
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